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Favorite: FreeDesigndom 2008

Holland's inaugural FreeDesigndon was a month long design celebration complete with debate, exhibitions and exciting urban interventions. There was fashion, high-tech, the best new graduates, and the stars of high design - something for everyone. In case you missed it, or to tide you over until next year, we have selected interviews, and reviews of some of the top events. Enjoy.

Design.nl's last video from FreeDesigndom is up. This time we wander around Amsterdam's Sunday Adventure Club events to see how public space designers managed to create thrilling and intereactive work for the public...

The Via Milano New Dutch Design exhibition was more about details and pushing materals to the limits than concepts this year. But there was also a good sense of dry Dutch humour and some inventiveness that all bodes...

Early last Sunday morning, Amsterdam police removed the piece Stefan Sagmeister designed for Urban Play. It was one of the most celebrated installations of the event, which is part of the ExperimentaDesign biennale.

Helen Gras sits down to discuss the mental manoeuvrings that drive fashion. She describes her fascinating presenatation for DARE #3 about how women want to belong but want to be different and how fashion...

Adam Greenfield is an anarchist, a humanist and a futurist. At this year's Picnic event he delved into the complicated issues surrounding design and ubiquitous cities. Afterwards he sat down with design.nl to...

Despite a remarkably stupid intervention by the Amsterdam police, Urban Play proves to be the hit event of this year’s ExperimentaDesign. Curator Scott Burnham sees the success as part of the city’s unique poetry...